John Scott manuscript material

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{"value"=>"Scott, John, 1784-1821", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"John Scott manuscript material"}

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{"value"=>"ca. 1815-1819", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1815/1819"}

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{"value"=>"Pforz MS", "type"=>"local_call"}

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{"value"=>"<p>· Holograph poem, \"England, Just before the victories gained in June 1815\" : [watermark = 1815] : (MISC 1373.18) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"O'er England's plains, in common pace, / Men all the usual tasks pursue ...\".</p><p>· Holograph poem, \"England, written in October 1815\" : [Oct 1815] : (MISC 1373.19) : 5 pages (2 double sheets) : [no place] : begins, \"Dear native land! whom the free sky rewards / with showers of bounty, -- calm & freshness pouring ...\"; addressed to Taylor and Hessey on the final leaf of the second double sheet.</p><p>· Holograph poem, \"The House of Mourning\" : [1817] : (MISC 1373.17) : 30 pages (3 single sheets; 6 double sheets) : [no place] : introduction begins, \"The child, whose unexpected fate has given rise to the following poem, lately died at Paris ...\"; poem begins, \"Our little Boy is dead!\".</p><p>· Holograph verses to \"The House of Mourning\" : [1817] : (MISC 1373.20) : 3 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"Night deepened on us fast; and all the air / Was troubled; and there was a howling heard ...\".</p><p>· Holograph verse to \"The House of Mourning\" : [1817] : (MISC 1373.21) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"Grief lies upon her brow, austere & still / And bedded -- like an aged, uncouth, stone ...\".</p><p>· Holograph verses to \"The House of Mourning\" : [1817] : (MISC 1373.23) : 1 page (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"In petty interests and selfish cares / Our day is parceled out, estranged & poor ...\"; with a scrap of a corrected printed proof of \"Instinct of the Spirit towards the Past\" and proofs of \"Exercised of the Mind.\".</p><p>· Holograph verses to \"Instinct of the Spirit towards the Past\" : [ca. 1816-1817] : (MISC 1373.22) : 2 pages (single sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"And o'er such fragments feel they more elate / than when full on them shines the pomp of living state ...\"; with note at the top of page 1, \"Add the following lines to the poem entitled Instinct of the Spirit towards the Past.\".</p><p>· To James Hopwood, the elder, printmaker : 1 autograph letter signed : [between 1815 and 1819] : (MISC 1373.01a) : 1 page (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"I send you Mr. Reynold's Poem & I trust you will agree with me in thinking it has sufficiently good chance to be popular ...\"; along with Hopwood's draft fragment reply, with a watermark of 1815 (MISC 1373.01b), beginning, \"I heartily wish it were in my power to approve of Mr. Reynolds's Poem ...\".</p><p>· To John Taylor (1781-1864), publisher and writer : 2 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Tuesday\" : (MISC 1373.02) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from 14 Park Place, Baker St. : begins, \"I have got a little legal business to transact; -- to manage which I have need of a respectable Solicitor ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Saturday\" : (MISC 1373.03) : 1 page (double sheet) : from 42 Clarendon Sq.r : begins, \"Bargaining apart, I shall be glad to see you tomorrow ...\".</p><p>· To Taylor and Hessey, publishers : 8 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 2 Jan 1817 : (MISC 1373.05) : 1 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : from Hotel Mayence, Rue St. Honoré, 352, Paris : begins, \"I am safely arrived at Paris & has the satisfaction to find Mrs. Scott pretty well ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : \"Monday\" [Jan 1817] : (MISC 1373.06) : 2 pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"I postpone sending the conclusion of the Poem till next week ...\" -- 1 autograph letter (fragment) : [Jan 1817] : (MISC 1373.07) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"There is a serious mistake in the 12th line from the end of the last Proof sentence.\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Jan 1817 : (MISC 1373.08) : 3 pages (double sheet) : from Hotel Mayence, Rue St. Honoré, 352 : begins, \"The name is a work of some difficulty ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Feb 1817 : (MISC 1373.09) : 6 pages (1 double sheet; 1 single sheet) : from Paris : begins, \"I have, since my return to Paris, as I find there is no travelling for some time yet, turned my mind very seriously to a work of the nature we have already spoken of ...\"; with a four page (double sheet) list of books in Scott's hand. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 6 Feb 1817 : (MISC 1373.10) : 3 ¹/₄ pages (double sheet) : from Paris : begins, \"I do not think it will be at all necessary for me to see the proofs of the copy now sent ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 24 Feb 1817 : (MISC 1373.11) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Paris : begins, \"I am extremely vexed by a letter I have just received from Mrs. Scott ...\" -- 1 autograph letter signed : 28 Feb 1817 : (MISC 1373.14) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from Paris : begin, \"I was very glad to find by the packet which I received to day, that my doubts expressed in my last, as to my proper understanding of Mrs. Scott's letter, are well-founded ...\"; with a 1 page (single sheet) list of corrections for \"House of Mourning.\".</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>John Scott, Scots-born journalist.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1815

date_inclusive_end

1819

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1815

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18 items

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{"value"=>"John Scott manuscript material : 18 items, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

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{"value"=>"John Scott, Scots-born journalist. · Holograph poem, \"England, Just before the victories gained in June 1815\" : [watermark = 1815] : (MISC 1373.18) : 2 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet) : [no place] : begins, \"O'er England's plains, in common pace, / Men all the usual tasks pursue ...\".", "generated"=>true}

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1815

date_end

1819

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